{"id":6951,"date":"2025-11-30T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:40:24","slug":"jack-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/jack-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Green"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group gallery-photo lightbox\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0054.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-e2N9a917\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1013\" src=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0054-1024x1013.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0054-1024x1013.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0054-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0054-600x593.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0054-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0054.jpg 1640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jack Green<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Shelbyville High School&#8217;s most famous athlete Jack Green blocked a punt as the Red Devils upset Lexington Henry Clay, 14-7, in the 1941 Tobacco Festival game. Later, he would captain the unbeaten  national champion Army teams of 1944 and 1945 and be elected to college football&#8217;s Hall of Fame. He was named head coach at Vanderbilt University in 1963 and served as assistant coach at Kansas and Baylor. He died in 1981. He was one of 10 children of D. L. and May Green, for whom a new bridge was dedicated on the Eminence Pike in 2005.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Date<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Circa 1942<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tags<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-post_tag wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/tag\/people\/\" rel=\"tag\">People<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/tag\/schools-education\/\" rel=\"tag\">Schools &amp; Education<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/tag\/sports\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sports<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From Shelbyville High School 1942 Yearbook<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Portrait of the Past<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jim Cleveland Photo Collection ID 1942SHSYrBook-001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This file may be downloaded for personal, research, or classroom use, free of charge.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo of Jack Green in 1942<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":3437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[93,96,97],"post_folder":[77],"class_list":["post-6951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","tag-people","tag-schools-education","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7113,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions\/7113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}